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...like the sound of weasel coffee? Before you answer, consider the alternative name for Trung Nguyen Caf?s signature blend: Weasel Poop Coffee. After all, the thriving Vietnamese brew traces its origin to rodent droppings...
Coffee mogul Dang Le Nguyen Vu, 31, owes much of the success of his 400-outlet-strong Trung Nguyen franchise to reviving Ca Phe Chon. According to legend, the chon (weasel) would eat the choicest coffee beans, then digest the outer shells, leaving the innards to, um, emerge in long strings. Farmers collected the beans and roasted them?presumably after a thorough washing?to make a rich brew. While Vietnam isn't alone in making such coffee (Indonesia has beans predigested by civets), Vu has brought Ca Phe Chon back in a more sanitary incarnation. He processes the beans...
...will take Weasel Coffee global, with Trung Nguyen caf?s scheduled to open this year in Singapore and Japan. "Weasel Coffee will be one of our main marketing strategies," Vu says. "We want to keep the legend alive." Just so long as he doesn't use live weasels...
...singles action, sophomore Oliver Choo and freshman Cliff Nguyen scored major third round upsets, but neither could keep their magic going in the quarterfinals. Choo, unseeded, outlasted No. 4 Oscar Chow of Columbia in a three-hour, back-and-forth war, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3), but lost in round four to Penn State's Gresh...
...Nguyen, the No. 20 seed, defeated No. 12 Trevor Smith of Princeton in another seesaw third round battle, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4. The freshmen almost kept it going against third-seeded Eric Sharf of St. John's in the quarters. Unfortunately, Nguyen had only so much energy. Sharf emerged victorious in the third set, winning 6-3, 2-6, 6-1. Nguyen opened the tournament with a first-round bye and won his second round match, 6-3, 6-3, over Georgetown's Nick Sklavounos...